[Foundation-l] Increasing the number of new accounts who actually edit

[Robert Rohde]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think Andre is right, and this is the reason for so many non-editing
> accounts, especially since SUL.  I am sure someone can run a script to
> determine how many "non-editing" English WP accounts have a partner
> "editing" account on another project.

Circa last May, roughly 15% of new EN wikipedia accounts were being
created by SUL cross-overs.  Even if you assume that none of these
were to engage in editing, it still means that at least 80% of the
unused accounts were created via local registration.

-Robert Rohde